 OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ? whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'er-look'd, seen...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 64by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods - Economists - 1989 - 320 pages
...(see Hicks 1982, 301). 89 Consumer Surplus: The First Hundred Years RB Ekelund Jr. and RF Hebert O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure,...Whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man Introduction... | |
 | J. Gay Tulip Meeks - Business & Economics - 1991 - 190 pages
...as an exciting novelty in the eighteenth century. In a celebrated couplet, Alexander Pope exulted: Oh happiness. Our Being's End and Aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, Whate'er thy Name. Happiness, bonheur, hailed, it has been said, by the eighteenthcentury philosophers as 'a new word... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1993 - 776 pages
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 | Steven Lukes - Fiction - 1995 - 284 pages
...calculating in the streets? What, he asked Alexander Pope, is happiness? 'Oh Happiness!' replied Pope, 'our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content!...whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 228 pages
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